Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of nuclear tests were carried out by the US in the Pacific between 1946 and 1958. The largest of these was the detonation ...

Later this month I will return to Japan for the annual Bikini commemoration and the Gensuikyō, or Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, annual conference. There won’t be a bikini fashion ...

The Operation Castle group of tests sought to validate dropping new, high-yield thermonuclear weapons from the air. However, the technology involved in making the bombs was complex and unproven, so ...

Dr. Norman Panting arose at 4 a.m. and squeezed into a Douglas C-47 military transport aircraft. It was still dark by the time the plane rose to near 10,000 feet, but he and everyone aboard wore ...

In 1954, scientists and military personnel gathered at Bikini Atoll to witness Castle Bravo, the first test in a major series of thermonuclear experiments conducted during the early Cold War. The ...

There are few places more peaceful than a Pacific island. At 6:45 on a March morning in 1954, that peace was shattered by the largest nuclear test in American history: Operation Bravo. The Bravo test ...

There has been talk in the national security community lately about the so-called “merits” of resuming underground or even atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. I think this would be a grave mistake for ...